Personally I'm π± only so pirating is whatever streaming site works the best. Agreed that Lemmy could use more though, even if I can't use it. Maybe Lenny is full of mobile phone chuds like me?
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
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On lemmy.world it is dead, you need to pop over to DB0 or ml.
The world admins have the stance that they don't want to host or directly link to piracy content because of the legal trouble it may bring as it's hosted in the Netherlands and the piracy rules are different here.
I thought NL had great laws and that is why basically every seedbox provider is based there.
Sup
I had no idea, I heard they banned and then unbanned some piracy communities but that was it and it was a couple years ago. thanks for the context.
After it got banned the first time it got unbanned after the drama with the promise of more transparency and communication from the LW team. Then some months later someone allegedly uninformed (was that a new admin or smth?) banned it again without transparency and communication causing another drama but this time they sticked with the ban for good. At least that's how I remember it going. If you dig into the old posts you will get a more accurate timeline.
NL the world capital of usenet? That NL?
That NL, we also have quite a few banned domains here. Basically copyright organisations like Brein will sue everyone they can get away with. Unfortunately they have been succesfull on multiple occasions, mostly because the other party won't show up in court and they win by default. Another thing they do is sue one of the large ISP's for facilitating copyright infringement to get them to block sites like torrent sites. If the judge rules in their favor, then all Dutch ISP's have to abide by the ruling.
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This is news to me so thanks for the heads up.
I'm awaiting my db0 approval now.
yaarrrr matey! i did the same when I learned of .worlds nonsense on this
i don't even really interact with the piracy comm but who tf do you think you are blocking my access to it? i wanna say they have no right but they do so that's why I took my ball and went to play with the anarchists :)
read bread book
Good torrent for Petr Kropotkin's "the conquest of bread"?
That honestly was my favorite thing to do. Torrent and seed public domain and foss things like books and isos. It led to a couple false cease and dissets which was really funny telling them they were wrong.
I'm not sure about a torrent but that link is to it hosted in plaintext with a bunch of download options on https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
that's really funny though, id imagine it's a delicious satisfaction telling an ISP (or whoever else?) to respectfully shove it
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your instance blocks piracy related communities. here in dbzero there is a very active piracy scene, it's just defederated.
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Come over to db0! We are huge stans of piracy \o/
Yeah, but the pro genAI stances kinda turns me away
You don't have to join db0, just an instance that federates and then you can join the particular communities on db0 you want.
Even their pro gen AI stance is stemmed from piracy (anti-copyright). You might say they are too pirate
Seemingly very anti intellectual property.
That why you sign up at an instance that's not LW or db0 π
Yeah, I hate that too, but db0 still works for me in literally every other facet.
But the pro gen-AI stance is really at odds with the otherwise anarchist-ish outlook of db0: replacing individual human creativity with something that by its very nature requires large corporations to even run, or just a TON of personal capital to run yourself.
it only really clicked for me when I heard it described as (anti-corpo) pro-genAI
so, pro the technology but fuck the big players in the scene... fuck the big players in any scene
much more selfhosted genAI stuff in those comms than your big names (I think, the corpo side of it has turned me off the whole jam too so I don't browse them or anything but the position isn't so at odds with the anarchism imo)
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TIL .world blocks more communities than I though.
I mean, I don't agree with everything dbzer0 (the instance) stands for, but it stands for freedom of speech and I'm with that.
It sounds like you want an account on dbzer0. You don't need to give up your .world account or leave .world; the nice thing about federation is you can actually be on multiple instances. It's kind of pointless in a way, but if your instance does something you don't like, you can still federate through another instance. dbzer0 is my main/home instance (I have one other because I was PieFed-curious), but for .world and other bigger instance users, it's a good side instance to keep an account with.
Another instance of all of this is that most instances defederate from the NSFW instance, so if you make an account there, your access to NSFW content is ensured. (Most defederate them for a good reason. I've never seen them post straight up CSAM, but they post stuff that blurs the lines. I think (and want to believe) they're on the legal side, but I believe the confusion and questionable nature is intentional. Which is why some instances have defederated them, in case they cross that line (or maybe they have before).
dbzer0 doesnβt stand for Freedom of speech in the slightest. Look up the drama on why they defederated from feddit.org
Sorry for my ignorance, but how does one best research lemmy lore? IME search isn't lemmy's best feature.
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Lemmy.world tries really hard to follow the law. That means cracking down on illegal content. So yes, we are puritanical here.
At the very bottom is a menu with an entry called "Instances". Click that to see lists of linked and blocked instances.
At the very bottom is a menu with an entry called βInstancesβ. Click that to see lists of linked and blocked instances.
Just FYI that does not tell .world members about which communities lemmy.world admins block. Whether on purpose or accidental lemmy.world admins are a bit secretive about which communities they block, there is no published list anywhere I could find. If you find one let me know but AFAIK it does not exist.
So per your example .world members can see that instances are linked and federated (including dbzero) but there's no indication about any blocked communities on those linked instances.
Whether on purpose or accidental lemmy.world admins are a bit secretive about which communities they block, there is no published list anywhere I could find.
It may be illegal to link to illegal content. They could certainly get in trouble over it.
Lemmy.world blocks and bans all piracy content. Leave the instance if you need it.
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Because youβre on a shit instance with terrible administration.
Aww, come now. I think Lemmy.world for sure has its place in the fediverse. Itβs the first instance I would refer a normie to. Because they block a lot of shit. And they have a great domain name, easy to remember and tell someone about. Then someone like OP can post a question like this, and we can direct them to an instance that better suits their needs. Thatβs the beauty of the fediverse.
Thatβs basically how I went from world to piefed. I started getting back into using Soulseek but I couldnβt find anything except comments that world blocks piracy related topics. So I looked around and switched to here so I can see more stuff.
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